The universal definition is as follows:
A systematic, orderly arrangment.
The definition that applies to literature and grammar is as follows:
The rules and/or patterns used to form sentences in a language.
For example, English uses the pattern of subject, verb, direct object in the creation of sentences. Change the order of the sentence and you change the meaning: "Dog bites man" means a very different thing than "man bites dog". However, in other languages, there are different rules governing sentence order. In some languages, reversing the order would not reverse the meaning - it depends on the syntax of that language.
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